Tenjin Nagatani and Hideshi Suga

Nagatani Tenmangu Shrine is known as the Tenjin of Nagatani, and is known as a shrine that has one of the only three wooden statues that Sugawara no Michizane reflects himself in a mirror and carved himself.

Sugawara no Michizane, a man of the Heian period, was swept away by Dazaifu in Kyushu in 901 (901) and died there in 903, in opposition to Fujiwara clan, the ruler of time.
It is said to be the god of learning because it was excellent in writing literature and sentences.

There were thirteen children in Sugawara no Michizane, and the fifth child, Atsushige, was so much known as Hideshi Suga, who had received his father's talent, and his father, Michizane, had passed one of the three statues of Michizane. Along with his father Michizane, the children were also expelled from the capital to various places.
According to legend, Atsushimo was moved to the town of Nagatani.
There is no record that Hideshige Suga lived in Sagami, but it is reported that he lived at the foot of Tenjinyama in Kaminagaya, that is, around the current Sadasho-in.

Atsushi was standing at the top of Mt. Tenjin and was greeted in the morning and evening while wanting to be Michizane, the father of Dazaifu in Kyushu far away.
On the top of the mountain, there is a brush used by Atsushimo and a monument to Suga Hidezuka, which is said to have buried hair.

Once upon a time, when cutting an old cedar tree on the mound, it is reported that the villagers were injured or sick. .
I don't know when Atsushi Sugawara was born and when he died. He was famous as a second generation scholar of parents and children, including Dr. Writing and other important roles one after another.

The statue of Michizane was passed on to Uesugi Norikuni after many people from Atsushimo, and by the prayer of dreams, a shrine was built here in 1493 (1493) and celebrated as a sacred body. This is the current Nagatani Tenmangu Shrine.

The two statues of Michizane outside are located at Anrakuji Temple in Fukuoka Prefecture, where Michizane's grave is located, and at Domyoji Temple in Osaka Prefecture, where he was born.

It is a story recorded in "Old Story of Hometown Konan 50 Episode".
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